St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-11
alarming. He is not half as sick as he wa
after the last presidential election.
STRAY suNBEAMS.

One young American mother prides herself
in the oistidction of having her first baby s
name entered In the European royal herd
book. Tue infant whose name has just been
registered in the tiny little red book entitled
1.-The Almanac de Gotha'' is the first born
child Of the Princess CoLoNNA, the STEP
daughter of The bonanza millionaire, JOHN w.
MACKAY.
1.-THE Almanac de Gotha" Is devoted to the
genealogy of the royal and princely houses of
Europe. Only English mobiles of the rank of
duke and with sprinkling of the cream of
the higher nobility of Europe are recorded
within its covers. The Almanac" is to
European nobility what the Herd Book is
to the American stock breeder. 1t is the
only evidence of pure blood.
NJ
The young princess who has been admitted
to this illustrious body of highnesses royal
and hereditary excellencies, was entered in
the red book under the title of DONNA
EVELYN JULIE BRYAN MACKAY, Princess DE
COLONNA, the same name that her mother
bears. And yet this young sprig of royalty
Is the granddaughter of woman who
twenty years ago was having a hard struggle
with poverty in rough mining town in
Nevada.
Mrs. MACKAY, the mother of Princess
CoLoNNA No. 1, and grandmother of the
Princess COLoNNA No. 2, kept small board
ing house in Virginia City. Together with
her struggles against grinding poverty and
supporting a drunken husband the poor
woman had a wretched time of il. Among
the half dozen miners who boarded with her
was an honest Irish laborer who had COM
passion on her, and as soon as she was re-
lieved OF the burthen of her drunken hus-
band married her himself
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1t was a lucky marriage for the poor
widow. One of those phenomenal turns in
the wheel of fortune which are parts of the
history of American mining regions raised the
1rish-American laborer to the the rank of a
millionaire. When JOHN MACKAY had ac-
cumulated fifty millions he took his wife to
Europe and married her daughter to the
heir of the prlncely house of CoLoNNA, who
was perfectly willing to barter his title for
American gold.
~
Although Mrs. MACKAY and her daughter
put on great deal of style in their Partisan
home and attempt to ape royal customs, Mr..
MACKAY has never lost his head by his good
luck. He is the same sterling. honest, COM
nonsense man he was when he handled a
pick in the Nevada mines twenty years ago.
He is still one of natures gentlemen, and
although the possessor of $50, 100000, con-
tinues to wear S12 suit and carries a So. 80
nickel watch in his vest pocket.
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The thaatriool
OF row over the operations of the. inter
state commerce law, and with probably less
cause for it than anybody else. 1t catches
them at nearly the close OF the amusement
season, when the additional expense of trans
portation will not materially effect the years
business one way or the other. By another
season the theatrical business will be re-
arranged SO as to meet the conditions i'm
POSED by the new law.
H~*
The theatrical circuits will be re-arranged
so as to give the stray combinations the ex-
elusive business in the larger cities and the
small shows will be confined to the small
towns. Managers agree that the theaters in
the large cities will be compelled to return to
the old system of keeping stock companies
and tn at there will have to be more extern
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really the proprietors of the theaters. and not
the company managers, who are the proper
ones to grumble.
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KATIE WALTERS, bright little Cincinnati
girl, went to a dentist the other day to have
an aching tooth pulled out. In pulling the
tooth small piece of the tooth was allowed
to remian. Four days aftcrward the child
died in intense agony from blood poisoning.
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The Republican papers in Ohio are jubilant
over the fact that the son of CLEMENT l..
VALLANDIG HAM voted an open Republican
ticket at the late election in that state. The
Democratic papers are rejoicing that the
same day young VALLANDIGHAM went over to
the Republicans, the Democrats doubled
their majority in Columbus and swept Cleve-
land. Two days later the Democrats Cal rie6
Rhode Island for the first time in the nation s
history. There is a popular impression if one
or two more prominent Ohio Democratic poll
ticians would go over to the Republicans the
Democrats would sweep the state like q
cyclone at the next election.